Two caricatures, I: Pascal's wager

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-114

  Franklin, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 54649084777     PISSN: 00207047     EISSN: 15728684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1017153513939     Document Type: Article

References (21)

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2. introductions to recent discussion in R. Anderson, 'Recent criticism and defenses of Pascal's wager', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 37 (1995): 45-56;
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4. on Pascal's Jesuit source for the Wager, L. Blanchet, 'L'attitude religieuse des jésuites et les sources du pari de Pascal', Revue de métaphysique et de morale 26 (1919): 477-516, 617-647.
5. Abbé de Villars, Traité de la delicatesse (Paris, 1671), pp. 354-355,
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7. Voltaire, Letres philosophiques, 17th letter, remark V.
8. Voltaire, Letres philosophiques, Ibid.
9. Pensées (1670) p. 52, quoted in Thirouin, p. 168.
10. I. Hacking, The Emergence of Probability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 66;
11. see J. Jordan, 'The many-gods objection', in J. Jordan (ed.), Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's Wager (Eanhan, MD: Rowman Eittlefield, 1993), pp. 101-113.
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